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Simon Brodkin was already a stand-up in the making at the age of 13. “I cut my teeth on the year 9 comedy circuit,” he says with a grin. His compulsion to make people laugh had been there from ...

Since his diagnosis, 44-year-old Brodkin has really been getting to know himself. Before then, he’d rather have been anyone else. In the late Noughties, Brodkin became a household name as the so ...

Comedian Simon Brodkin has revealed the money he showered over FIFA President Sepp Blatter was $600 of his own money - and that he received all of it back from the police. Brodkin, best known for ...

Simon Brodkin would like to thank David Duke and the alt-right for their help with his latest stand-up show. The creator of comedy character Lee Nelson, Brodkin is also well known for his high ...

All in a day’s work for prankster number one Simon Brodkin. Best known on the stand-up circuit as his happy-go-lucky chav character Lee Nelson, for the last few years Brodkin has specialised in ...

British comedian Simon Brodkin is to be charged by the Swiss authorities with trespassing following his arrest on Monday after gatecrashing a FIFA press conference and showering outgoing president ...

Simon Brodkin – often in the guise of alter ego Lee Nelson – has showered cash over Sepp Blatter, gatecrashed Kanye’s Glastonbury set and supplied Swastika-emblazoned golf balls to Donald Trump. But ...

Comedian Simon Brodkin has been branded "disgusting" over a joke he made at the Royal Variety Performance. The 46-year-old appeared on the line-up alongside the likes of Cher, Melanie C ...